Common Birds in Vermont
Our list for Vermont has 70 common birds recorded regularly there: 19 residents, 36 summer visitors, 13 winter visitors and 2 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Vermont in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 70, most common first
Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinusResidentCommon23–26 cmRecorded all year
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensisResidentCommon43–54 cmRecorded all year
Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensisWinter visitorCommon45–65 cmRecorded all year
Common MerganserMergus merganserWinter visitorCommon58–68 cmRecorded all year
Northern FlickerColaptes auratusSummer visitorCommon28–31 cmRecorded all year
House FinchHaemorhous mexicanusResidentCommon13–15 cmRecorded all year
Chestnut-sided WarblerSetophaga pensylvanicaSummer visitorCommon10–14 cmRegularly May–Sep
Northern Yellow WarblerSetophaga aestivaSummer visitorCommon12–13 cmRegularly May–Sep
American RedstartSetophaga ruticillaSummer visitorCommon11–14 cmRegularly May–Sep
Chipping SparrowSpizella passerinaSummer visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Great Blue HeronArdea herodiasSummer visitorCommon91–137 cmRegularly Mar–Dec
VeeryCatharus fuscescensSummer visitorCommon16–19 cmRegularly May–Sep
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentCommon14–17 cmRecorded all year
Ruby-crowned KingletCorthylio calendulaPassage migrantCommon9–11 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Rock DoveColumba liviaWinter visitorCommon29–37 cmRecorded all year
Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatusWinter visitorCommon40–49 cmRecorded all year
Turkey VultureCathartes auraSummer visitorCommon62–81 cmRegularly Feb–Nov
Eastern BluebirdSialia sialisResidentCommon16–21 cmRecorded all year
Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus variusSummer visitorCommon19–22 cmRegularly Apr–Jan
Wood DuckAix sponsaSummer visitorCommon47–54 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
GoldeneyeBucephala clangulaWinter visitorCommon40–51 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalusWinter visitorCommon70–102 cmRecorded all year
Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbulaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly May–Aug
Data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made